The Power of Habit: Here’s how you can be part of the 20% who achieve their new year’s resolutions and goals every year!
This week in particular, I am bringing you a book recommendation that will help you move your career goals and personal goals forward. For me, reading and staying up to date on the latest tips and studies on what it takes to develop yourself as an individual is highly important. As a strong proponent of continued learning, I also believe it is important to implement the knowledge you take away from these works. This is why I am sharing with you a particular book in the hope that this will help you walk into 2022 with readiness to take on new challenges and develop new habits. I strongly encourage you to go all-in this upcoming year. Once you indulge in this book, you’ll walk away with concrete advice on how to reach your goals and become your best self.
|
||
|
The Power of Habit: Here’s how you can be part of the 20% who achieve their new year’s resolutions and goals every year! The beginning of each year marks the start session for a season of self-invention. For many individuals, each January means making new promises to themselves, moving on from the past year, and reflecting on what they hope to achieve in the upcoming year. However, keeping these resolutions proves to be a problem for most individuals. In fact, according to the U.S. News & World Report, 80% of those who make resolutions fail. Why? Based on my personal experience in making resolutions, I found it hard to sustain the passion and determination I felt at the start of a new year. Come mid-year or in the latter half of the year, I found myself struggling to achieve all the goals I optimistically established. Thankfully, I read Charles Duhigg’s book, “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business.” This book circles around a proven framework that helps individuals change their lives by forming good habits, breaking bad ones, and mastering small behaviors that lead to massive transformation. In this book, Duhigg explains that habits are unconscious behaviors that rule over our day to day routines. Duhigg backs his analysis by sharing some of the most prevalent studies done by top scientists around the world, many of which have shown how the human brain can’t actually discern between good, effective, or harmful habits. This explains why on a day to day basis, we participate in behaviors and actions that allow the good, effective, and harmful to coexist. From there, Duhigg delivers his most useful strategies on how one can overcome their destructive habits… merely by small, incremental changes. By reading his book, I was able to identify both positive and negative habits I had in my everyday life. Then, using Duhigg’s design on how to break habits or overcome them, I was able to set new and attainable goals for myself in the coming year. Each of the book's chapters present multiple tools to help you on days when you lack motivation or the willpower to get your work done. I assure you, Duhigg’s book will help you get back on track with all your goals. Another thing I learned from Duhigg’s book is no matter how big your resolutions or goals are, the secret to achieving them is by incorporating and implementing small changes. This will help change your life. If you want to achieve your new year's resolutions, you must change your day to day habits. It is the small day to day vices that make up who you are and forecast who you will become. So, I strongly encourage you. This January, pick up “The Power of Habit,” and make 2022 your year! Hope you’ve found this week’s insights interesting and helpful. Follow us on LinkedIn. Stay tuned for next Friday’s article! Learn more about the top 5 trends in the future of work on next week! |
